Family Planning & Infertility

Exploring Parenthood Readiness

Becoming a parent is a life-changing decision that brings both excitement and uncertainty. Exploring parenthood readiness means taking time to reflect on your emotional, relational, financial, and lifestyle readiness for raising a child. We offer a supportive space to navigate your hopes, fears, expectations, and values—without pressure or judgment. Wherever you land, our goal is to help you feel more grounded and confident in your next steps. 

Contraception and Reproductive Education

Understanding your reproductive options is a vital part of making empowered decisions about your body and future. Discerning what options are available, necessary for your health for both men and women and bodies of all types and genders. At Mindful Steps Therapy, we create a space to explore contraception, fertility awareness, and reproductive health without shame or stigma. Whether you're navigating birth control choices, thinking about family planning, or simply want to feel more informed, we’re here to support your questions and goals with care and clarity. We also can help support in connecting you with inclusive providers who are able to provide supportive, informative and expert opinions on women's health reproduction, increasing your knowledge and overall healthcare.

Emotional Support in Decision-Making

Deciding if, when, or how to grow your family can bring up complex emotions—hope, fear, grief, excitement, and everything in between. It can often stir up your own personal stories and moments in life in how you were raised, ideas and mappings about what a parent is or isn't. Our therapy offers a compassionate space to sort through these feelings, clarify your values, and explore your options at your own pace. We’re here to support you emotionally as you navigate pressures, uncertainties, or partner dynamics, so you can move forward with greater clarity and confidence.

 Impact on Emotional and Mental Health during Fertility Treatment

Fertility challenges can be emotionally exhausting, impacting your sense of identity, relationships, and hope. Therapy provides a space to process the grief, anxiety, frustration, and isolation that often accompany this journey. You don’t have to carry the weight alone—we're here to support your mental and emotional well-being with compassion and understanding every step of the way.

Navigating the Infertility Healthcare World

The infertility healthcare system can feel overwhelming, impersonal, and filled with difficult decisions. Psychotherapy offers a grounding space to process medical information, prepare emotionally for appointments, and cope with the stress of waiting, outcomes, and uncertainty. We can help you advocate for yourself, manage expectations, and stay connected to your emotional needs while navigating a system that often overlooks them. You deserve support—not just medically, but emotionally, too. Getting support through your medical treatments such as but not limited to IUI, IVF, and everything in-between. It can be exhausting to communicate to the people around you who just do not get it. Here at Mindful Steps Therapy we know the steps in each treatment, and the toll it takes on the body. 

Surrogacy and Adoption Processing

Considering surrogacy or adoption often brings a mix of hope, grief, joy, and complexity. Therapy offers space to explore the emotional layers of these paths—whether you're grieving biological infertility, navigating ethical or relational questions, or preparing for the unique journey of becoming a parent through alternative means. We support you in processing your story, holding space for both loss and possibility, and moving forward with intention and care.

Grief and Loss Support for Failed Cycles / Pregnancy Loss

The pain of a failed fertility cycle or pregnancy loss is often invisible to the outside world, yet deeply felt. Here at Mindful Steps Therapy we seek to provide a safe space to honour your grief, make sense of the loss, and process the emotional and physical toll it can take. Whether you’re feeling sadness, anger, guilt, or numbness—we’re here to walk with you through it, at your own pace. Your experience matters, and you don’t have to navigate it alone.